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Drilling speed & feed

RPM, feed and per-hole cutting time for twist drills — flags deep holes and tells you when to switch to a G83 peck cycle with a sensible Q value.

Material & tool

Hole

Advanced auto from material — type to override

Formulas used

n = 1000 · Vc / (π · D)Spindle speed from cutting speed and drill diameter.
Vf = n · fnFeed rate from speed and feed per revolution.
t = L / VfCutting time per hole from depth and feed rate.